HEART & SOIL COMMUNITY CIC

Company limited by guarantee

Company Registration Number:
14181859 (England and Wales)

Unaudited statutory accounts for the year ended 30 June 2023

Period of accounts

Start date: 20 June 2022

End date: 30 June 2023

HEART & SOIL COMMUNITY CIC

Contents of the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 30 June 2023

Directors report
Profit and loss
Balance sheet
Additional notes
Balance sheet notes
Community Interest Report

HEART & SOIL COMMUNITY CIC

Directors' report period ended 30 June 2023

The directors present their report with the financial statements of the company for the period ended 30 June 2023

Principal activities of the company

The principal activities of the company in the period under review were projects designed to promote, encourage, educate on, and support home and community-scale composting and earth-friendly growing.



Directors

The directors shown below have held office during the whole of the period from
20 June 2022 to 30 June 2023

Jessica Martin
Amy Poole
Jennifer Yard


The above report has been prepared in accordance with the special provisions in part 15 of the Companies Act 2006

This report was approved by the board of directors on
11 March 2024

And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Jessica Martin
Status: Director

HEART & SOIL COMMUNITY CIC

Profit And Loss Account

for the Period Ended 30 June 2023

2023


£
Turnover: 3,490
Cost of sales: ( 3,051 )
Gross profit(or loss): 439
Administrative expenses: ( 127 )
Operating profit(or loss): 312
Interest receivable and similar income: 0
Interest payable and similar charges: 0
Profit(or loss) before tax: 312
Tax: 0
Profit(or loss) for the financial year: 312

HEART & SOIL COMMUNITY CIC

Balance sheet

As at 30 June 2023

Notes 2023


£
Fixed assets
Intangible assets:   0
Tangible assets:   0
Investments:   0
Total fixed assets: 0
Current assets
Stocks:   0
Debtors:   0
Cash at bank and in hand: 503
Investments:   0
Total current assets: 503
Prepayments and accrued income: 0
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year: 3 ( 191 )
Net current assets (liabilities): 312
Total assets less current liabilities: 312
Total net assets (liabilities): 312
Members' funds
Profit and loss account: 312
Total members' funds: 312

The notes form part of these financial statements

HEART & SOIL COMMUNITY CIC

Balance sheet statements

For the year ending 30 June 2023 the company was entitled to exemption under section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.

The members have not required the company to obtain an audit in accordance with section 476 of the Companies Act 2006.

The directors acknowledge their responsibilities for complying with the requirements of the Act with respect to accounting records and the preparation of accounts.

These accounts have been prepared and delivered in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime.

This report was approved by the board of directors on 11 March 2024
and signed on behalf of the board by:

Name: Jessica Martin
Status: Director

The notes form part of these financial statements

HEART & SOIL COMMUNITY CIC

Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 30 June 2023

  • 1. Accounting policies

    Basis of measurement and preparation

    These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the provisions of Section 1A (Small Entities) of Financial Reporting Standard 102

HEART & SOIL COMMUNITY CIC

Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 30 June 2023

  • 2. Employees

    2023
    Average number of employees during the period 0

HEART & SOIL COMMUNITY CIC

Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 30 June 2023

3. Creditors: amounts falling due within one year note

2023
£
Other creditors 191
Total 191

COMMUNITY INTEREST ANNUAL REPORT

HEART & SOIL COMMUNITY CIC

Company Number: 14181859 (England and Wales)

Year Ending: 30 June 2023

Company activities and impact

During the financial year 2022-2023, Heart & Soil Community’s activities have benefitted the community in the following ways;Having received a Members Grant contribution from a local MP, Heart & Soil Community designed and delivered two vermicomposting workshops aimed at local families, attended by 11 adults and 19 children. Each family made their own worm farm encouraging them to play an active role in dealing with their food waste, and received an engaging pack containing further information and activities. Participants delved into soil microbiology in a fun and age appropriate way, while learning how to care for their worms, and how to use the resulting vermicompost in earth-friendly growing.Following a successful funding bid from Kent Community Foundation, Heart & Soil Community delivered a well received series of five composting workshops across community gardens and spaces in East Kent. The workshops inspired and empowered 51 participants to find human scale composting solutions, giving them the skills to compost their waste to make nutrient dense compost, with a view to engaging in earth-friendly growing. This resulted in green waste being retained as a local resource, attendees establishing a connection with nature and their community, a reduction in the reliance on expensive, plastic wrapped compost, along with increased soil health and carbon capture in local gardens.Two additional private workshops were delivered to members of the local community in a small local garden. 25 people attended, and, in addition to the above, benefited from a deep dive into considering the ‘why’ behind the importance of human scale composting, such as daily climate action, as a mindfulness and a mental health practice.Kent Community Fund funding also enabled Heart & Soil Community to deliver vermicomposting workshops in three primary schools across the full range of year groups in Faversham and the surrounding areas. The workshops inspired 161 young children, and 20 members of staff to engage in food waste solutions by building worm farms for the classrooms. While the workshops were delivered through the school, the impact spread back to the communities of the participants as they took their newfound knowledge and enthusiasm for soil microbiology and composting back home with them.Heart & Soil Community carried out bespoke workshop and consultancy work with a Folkestone based Community Garden, their project directors and garden volunteers. The garden benefited from help to design effective composting systems and ideas on how to engage more community members in retaining local waste as a local resource. This resulted in reduced reliance on paid for compost, and the ability to pass on knowledge of how to efficiently use the systems in the training of volunteers and service users.

Consultation with stakeholders

Following each of our workshops, participants were asked to complete a feedback form, the results of which were used to alter or amend content for subsequent workshops and to design future workshops to suit the needs and demands of the public. In-person consultation with the individual community gardens and spaces took place before and after workshops to ascertain their needs and the ways in which Heart & Soil Community could be of service. One particular community garden felt their volunteers would appreciate in-depth training on soil health and composting, which led to a workshop being designed and delivered specifically for this purpose.A presence at Faversham market twice within the financial year, at an event held at the local garden centre, and a stand at a local environmental exhibition allowed face-to-face demonstrations and discussions with members of the public and stakeholders to encourage and champion composting, whilst listening to composting stories and hearing where people felt they may have failed or required extra support. This was invaluable information for designing composting workshops. Feedback from both successful and unsuccessful funding bids has helped to navigate finding a balance between the needs of stakeholders within the community, and what we are able to deliver to them operationally and financially.

Directors' remuneration

The total amount paid or receivable by directors in respect of qualifying services was £2,667.60.There were no other transactions or arrangements in connection with the remuneration of directors, or compensation for director’s loss of office, which require to be disclosed.

Transfer of assets

No transfer of assets other than for full consideration

This report was approved by the board of directors on
11 March 2024

And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Jessica Martin
Status: Director